Let's clear up this on Sony and hackers
Sony bears much of the responsibility for their own hacking problem. They can lay the blame right back to their own IT department. It is Sony's job to protect their own interests against malware, hackers etc... Does anyone/state sanctioned hacker have the right to attack Sony? NO, they do not! But, let's face it, Sony has an IT department which should have taken care of their security holes and obviously did not. There are many good IT/security companies out there who stay right on top of state sanctioned hackers. Sony should have hired one of them. So should Kmart, Home Depot and all other major companies who have been hacked as of late. While I think Little Kim (if he sanctioned it) should have his hand slapped, Sony should fire their entire IT department, stop whining over their loss and fix the problem.
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Months or years of ongoing activity in order to download the incredible amount of data taken. Where and what was Sony IT doing? He also doubted it was North Korea because the country lacked the broadband infrastructure to handle a massive data hack like that. 
I found his opinion to be very interesting and somehow think there is so much we're not being told.
Total Charlie Foxtrot.
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Would this he considered an attack against the United States?
With the interviewee reponding that it was indeed or should be considered as such.
The news anchor did not not probe further. She did not follow up.
I consider "an attack on the USA as hitting the WH, Pentagon, our utility grids, embassies etc., NOT corporations like Sony. Sony and Sony alone is responsible for protecting itself against hackers or whatever cyber weakness.
This is the same problem with the Home Depots, Targets, any financial institution and any business what wants to "privatize profits and socialize the risks".
Gonna keep my ears open for any other reference to this.
Adding link to CBS....
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-morning-from-cbs-news-dec-18-2014/
perhaps even an inside job or someone previously employed with Sony.
Still, not disregarding our own efforts to sabotage, where was Sony IT during these months or years that massive amounts of data were being backdoored through their servers? No one noticed an increase in traffic somewhere?
No one watching?
Understaffed IT?
Negligent IT?
Not too big to fail but too big to monitor?
We're not being told everything.
